by JKF Foundation | Sep 23, 2008 | Blog Post
Energized from the previous night’s meeting with the HCA folks, I took a cab to the John F. Kennedy Library to a conference put on by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts (BCBSMA). The conference was titled “In Pursuit of Health Care’s Holy Grail:...
by JKF Foundation | Sep 23, 2008 | Articles of Interest
3 Marylanders are among 25 selected for $500,000 MacArthur Foundation grants Published in: Baltimore Sun Issue/Volume: September 23, 2008 Written by: Frank D. Roylance and Tyeesha Dixon 9/23/2008 – The so-called “genius grants,” which were announced...
by JKF Foundation | Sep 23, 2008 | Articles of Interest
Published in: New York Times Issue/Volume: September 23, 2008 Written by: Patricia Cohen 9/23/2008 – Candidates in every conceivable field are eligible, though the largest cluster of awards this year went to scientists (13), with those in the arts (8) a close...
by JKF Foundation | Sep 22, 2008 | Blog Post
I flew to Boston on Monday, September 16, for a conference put on by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, which was to be held the next morning. Earlier in the week Jim Conway from the Institute for Healthcare Improvement contacted me and told me about a group in...
by JKF Foundation | Sep 15, 2008 | Articles of Interest
Published in: New York Times Issue/Volume: September 15, 2008 Written by: Laurie Tarkan 9/15/2008 – In a new study, researchers followed 140 English-speaking patients discharged from emergency departments in two Michigan hospitals and measured their...
